Doctors say Kennedy was awake during tumor removal

Monday, June 2, 2008 - 17:42 in Health & Medicine

CHICAGO (AP) -- Bravery in the face of cancer? Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has given it new meaning. Few things require as much courage as being wide awake and aware, lying perfectly still for hours, while surgeons methodically slice out bits of your brain. Kennedy did just that, in an unusual operation Monday at Duke University Medical Center to treat his cancerous brain tumor....

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